Quotes

**sabang** · 24-01-2008, 07:42 AM

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky

**Lambik** · 24-01-2008, 09:34 AM

" There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it "
Denis Diderot.

**Dalton** · 24-01-2008, 05:02 PM

"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." -- Robin Williams

"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself." -- Roseanne

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." -- Billy Crystal

"According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful." -- Robert DE Niro

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." -- Rod Stewart

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." -- Robin Williams

**Homer** · 25-01-2008, 07:59 AM

I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them." - Admiral Gene LaRocque.

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**Homer** · 25-01-2008, 08:01 AM

In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught: Baba Dioum

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell)

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics: -Robert A. Heinlein

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear: -Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. -Thomas Jefferson

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**Lambik** · 26-01-2008, 02:25 PM

" Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life."
HH The Dalai Lama.

**Homer** · 26-01-2008, 04:35 PM

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object: Abraham Lincoln

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.": Josh Billings

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." : Socrates

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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." : Stephen King

**Boon Mee** · 26-01-2008, 06:04 PM

Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
— Malcolm de Chazal

**Bluecat** · 26-01-2008, 06:13 PM

The one I prefer is the one from Churchill.

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else"

**Lambik** · 27-01-2008, 08:45 AM

"The optmist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell.

**sabang** · 27-01-2008, 10:06 AM

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Herman Goering,

April 18, 1946
From his cell at Nuremberg

**Boon Mee** · 27-01-2008, 08:57 PM

Recall during the Gulf War -- the previous one -- Clovis Maksoud, an American Arab leader said in an interview something to the effect that it wasn't fair to judge Muslims by the standards of the 20th century. I remember thinking, 'Hmm, is that supposed to be a plea for tolerance or an admission of guilt?'" - David D. Perlmutter

**Lambik** · 28-01-2008, 06:44 PM

" No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies."
Salvador de Madariaga.

**Boon Mee** · 28-01-2008, 11:05 PM

"The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion." - Saul Alinsky

**Homer** · 29-01-2008, 07:17 AM

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?: W. H. Auden: "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier"

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army: Edward Everett

"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.": Franklin D. Roosevelt : April 16, 1953

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**Lambik** · 29-01-2008, 08:46 AM

" I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

**Boon Mee** · 29-01-2008, 06:14 PM

The left practices the politics of envy and the economics of failure. They may have their hearts in the right place but their heads are usually in an awkward place." - M. Simon

**Homer** · 30-01-2008, 07:27 AM

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundnce of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" : Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..

"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage; torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians, which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."--George Orwell

**Boon Mee** · 31-01-2008, 07:09 AM

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn’t own.” -- Frank Dane

**Homer** · 31-01-2008, 07:45 AM

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched." Aldous Huxley, Island

"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face." George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. That's your choice." Noam Chomsky, The Chronicles of Dissent

"Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers." - R. Buckminster Fuller

**Lambik** · 31-01-2008, 08:17 AM

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
Clarence Seward Darrow.

**Homer** · 01-02-2008, 12:13 PM

"Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." - Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism: Howard Thurman:

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Bertrand Russell:

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? : Eleanor Roosevelt
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**Boon Mee** · 02-02-2008, 01:46 AM

“The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.” -- Hillary Clinton

**Lambik** · 02-02-2008, 02:33 PM

" Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least dissapointing."
Bernard Mannes Baruch.

**Boon Mee** · 03-02-2008, 08:09 PM

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." - Mahatma Gandhi

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